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William (Bill) Allen Woods, age 72 of Lynch, KY, entered into eternal rest on Monday, July 14, 2014, at the Harlan ARH Hospital. He was born December 03, 1941 in Greenville, Mississippi to the late Pervy and Pauline Dugger Woods. Bill served his community as a Pharmacist for over 40 years at the Lynch Medical Services and the Tri City Medical Clinic before retiring. He believed in the Baptist faith. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn (Lynn) Woods, of Lynch, KY; special caregiver, David Turner; caregiver, Lowell Davidson; and host of other friends. The family will receive friends at the Chapel of Tri City Funeral Home, 506 Holly Street, Benham, KY on Thursday, July 17, 2014, between 5 pm – 9 pm.
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Gerald Ward
R.I.P. Billy. I'm sure you will be missed.
D Gorton
Wee Willie Woods was my best friend. That nickname referred to his powerful physique and extraordinarily developed legs. Billy - Wee Willie - churned around 440 yards in near record time for the Hornets track team. I remember our hikes from the Bass Jr. High building to the new Greenville High School in the glorious Delta spring, carrying our track shoes.
It was at Billy's Aunt B's house that I first heard stereo. Billy bought a record that had the sounds of a ping pong match going back and forth, a train speeding by and other marvels. Its hard to imagine now that we could listen to that record for hours.
Billy's mother Pauline invited me to accompany them to her home in Savannah, Georgia. I recall that Aunt B and his grandmother came along for the trip. Pauline lived in the Drayton Arms, an impossibly handsome apartment building. We went to the horror movies that were showing films like The Thing. Pauline and B rented a cottage at Tybee Beach, Georgia, where we spent all day in the surf or next to it. We met beautiful (to us) girls. At night we had seafood.
Later we played football for the EE Bass Yannagans. Billy, who wore glasses, had gotten the newly available contact lenses. Several times in every game we would be on our knees, arms carefully outstretched, searching for a missing contact in the middle of the football field. Eventually Billy got a pair of goggles.
After High School and college Billy moved away from Greenville as did I. We lost touch with each other. I'd hear from time to time that he had become a pharmacist and lived in Kentucky. I'd make a mental note to catch up with him, but I never did.
I miss Wee Willie. I miss our summers and track and discovering stereo. I now regret not taking the time to stay in touch.
RIP Wee Willie.
Eddie Lum
Billy Woods was a helleva football player. He wore contact lenses and ocassionally he would be hit so hard that one or both lenses would be knocked out. Everyone would be on hands and knees, looking for the lense(s). he later began wearing googles. One year he broke a finger. Until it healed, he practiced/played with the finger in a cast. He could take a handoff and hang on to the ball with one hand. While viewing game film, we marvelled at watching him break tackles with one hand wrapped around the football and the other hand pointed skyward to protect the finger from further injury.
In 1963(?) Billy and I were members of a car pool that commuted to Delta State from Greenville. The others were George Abdo and Kirk Groome. I can't remember how we got the group together. It was the zaniest of all car pools. I was working in my mother's store and waiting to get back into MissState. Billy and George were waiting to get back into OleMiss. And Kirk was going back to Tulane. I knew George was studying pharmacy. I had no idea that Billy was also studying pharmacy. I think George's Dad owned a drug store. Every morning (except when George drove his VW Bug) we raced to see who could get to campus the fastest. We had to race because we hardly ever left Greenville on time. We very fortunate, none of us got a traffic citation nor did we ever have an accident.
I never saw Billy or any of the others after the car pool. I did get back to MissState and graduated that August. I left Mississippi and never looked back. Until, my daughter met Margaret Klein in 1999.
Ed Soon,aka Eddie Lum
P.S. I don't think speel check is working
Joan Carter (Cox)
D and Eddie - Your memories of Billy are so great! I sometimes wish, I had not had to go to All Saints my Freshman and Sophomore years. Would have loved to have known all my classmates a lot better!
You might want to send them to his wife.
Joan Cox